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Conversion of Two Closely Spaced Omnidirectional Microphone Signals to an XY Stereo Signal

For cost and form factor reasons it is often advantageous to use omni-directional microphones in consumer devices. If the signals of a pair of such microphones are used directly, time-delay stereo with possibly some weak intensity difference cues (device body shadowing) is obtained. The result is weak localization and little channel separation. If the microphones are relatively closely spaced, time-delay cues can be converted to intensity difference cues by applying delay-and-subtract processing to obtain two cardioids. The delay-and-subtract processing is generalized to also be applicable when there is a device body between the microphones. The two cardioids could be directly used as stereo signal, but to prevent low frequency noise the output signals are derived using a time-variant filter applied to the input microphone signals.

Author: Faller, Christof
Affiliation: Illusonic LLC, St.-Sulpice, Switzerland
AES Convention:129 (November 2010) Paper Number:8188 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Microphone Processing

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